1/1: badnaseeb

kitna hai badnaseeb 'zafar’

dafn ke liye

do gaz zameen bhi na mili

koo-e-yaar mein

how wretched is your fate, ‘zafar’

that for your burial

you couldn’t get two yards

in the lane (land) of the beloved

Bahadur Shah Zafar

(10)

dafn (3) burial

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badnaseeb (1) unfortunate

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